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Sure, if you only store your books on your reader, and you never upgrade, oh but not even then are you correct. I have a Rocket ebook from 2001, if I plug it in the books are still there and accessible. As to my current library, it's on my reader (Nook), my computer, an external HD and all purchased ones are available on the sites I purchased them from. The last source is the one most likely to disappear, but it's not a big concern. All the books I have on the old rocket reader were from Baen so when I bought the Nook I just re-downloaded them in the new format. Oh and the books in the reader are actually on a micro SD card in the reader and are thus easily transferable.
As to traveling, well that's what finally sold me on getting my nook. I went on a two week business trip to Cambodia. I packed eight books along (that being all I had room for). I had six of them read by the time I got over there, finished off the last couple withing a day or two of arrival and had nothing to read until I hit a stateside airport again. Counter that with the ability to have thousands of books on my reader at a time, and only needing interweb access to get more books. A book does not last me long. Power and internet were available to me in Cambodia, an English language book store or library was not.
The next two week trip I took, I took only my nook for reading material. I read 12.5 books and never once plugged it in. Power was again readily available but I wanted to see if it really would last me. And it did. Additionally the nook took less space than one book, let alone 8 to 13.
Now lets look at hard copy. If my Nook gets wet or dropped, I get another reader and transfer the SD card, or just re-download them. Conversely, with many of the paperbacks I own I have to be careful reading them because the crappy glue they use fails and the books try to fall apart on me. Then there is the storage, and issues when moving. My library was the most space and weight consuming portion of my possessions. I like books, I read and re-read them. I like to keep books. That results in several bookshelves filled two and three layers deep (paperback novels). I have more e-books than hardcopy now, but my entire e-library fits on the SD card inside my Nook.
The problem with sound tracks is keeping them synced with your reading. I hate it when I'm reading about a big space battle and the explosions keep happening in my mind minutes before the sound track gets to them. Or I forget to turn off the sound track when I have to put the book down and later I find myself picking up the book and being hours behind the sound effects.
No, you missed the point. The page that was linked continues to say that No Interpol messages related to religious matters will be processed and sent out. Saudi Arabia should have been politely but firmly told that such a warrant could not be published to the world via Interpol.
Interpol had better start screaming bloody murder about either their system or their name being misused by SA and Malaysia in this arrest. The fact that the warrant went out over the Interpol system is a violation of the Interpol constitution, if it did. Otherwise the fact that it's been reported as the arrest occurring by Interpol is a violation of the constitution.
It doesn't say that they don't intervene, it states that they will not be involved in any arrests or deportations or even publishing of warrants based on religious issues, as such warrants are, as in this case, pure persecution on the basis of thought crimes.
When you can show that the Government of Saudi Arabia had a hand in selecting, training for, funding and directing 9/11, you point will have credence. Until then, give it up all ready.
I'd suggest you don't really understand Interpol either. The above cited article 3 of Interpol's constitution and it's explanation on the linked site gives a very explicit definition that clearly show's this arrest was in violation of Interpol's constitution. That warrant notice should have never gone out.
From the above linked site:
Interpretation
The interpretation of Article 3 in the context of INTERPOL’s activities has been the subject of a number of INTERPOL’s General Assembly Resolutions.
Deriving from those Resolutions and their implementation in INTERPOL’s practice throughout the years, the primary objectives of Article 3 may be defined as follows:
To ensure the independence and neutrality of INTERPOL as an international organisation;
To reflect international extradition law;
To protect individuals from persecution.
Article 3 applies to all of INTERPOL’s activities and is particularly pertinent to the processing of information via the Organization’s channels, especially in the review and issuance of INTERPOL Notices and the review of messages exchanged directly among its member countries.
Though 10 years ago the cell coverage for basic phone service was much better. Back in the days of analog you had to hunt a lot harder to find areas without coverage. There were still plenty of them but not nearly as many.
Also I question the validity of the map. I know some of the areas of Utah where they claim solid coverage exists, it certainly doesn't have it. Once you get out of town or off the main transit routes (I-15, I-80, I-70, I-84, and Hwys 89 and 40) coverage becomes much more intermittent to non-existent.
In the US signing up a new plan without a new contract is near impossible. There are a very few cases mostly with smaller local carriers or pay as you go plans that give you nothing but basic local calling, which lock you into small geographic areas, As most carriers (especially the 4 major carriers) require two year contract agreements for seemingly standard plan features even if you bring your own device.
In Europe where you are it's a whole different world, your options are wide and many. Not so here in the US. And here you also have to be careful where you set up your account. Go with a second party retailer and you can easily find yourself under a double ETF. The second party retailers have you sign a contract agreement that identifies them as the party to whom an ETF would be owed, but then they establish or update your account with the carrier and check the contract agreement option. Try to cancel then and both the carrier and the second party retailer will come after you for the EFT. The secondary party comes after you because they are the ones who actually purchased the device at full price to sell to you, the carrier because their system says you agreed to a contract, not that you have any device costs for them to defray. So the wise choice is to ensure you are at a the Carrier's own branded stores to ensure you don't get the double whammy.
I'm sorry but I have to inform you that I have the patent on receiving royalties at P.O. Boxes, so if you'll just remit your received royalties to me I'll allow you to continue receiving royalties to pass on to me.
And don't ever try to change your plan, as the carriers often try to tack on another two years for every new service they bring out. Even though the contracts are supposedly to defray the cost of the devices. You find them getting tacked on for things like increasing your data plan, adding the latest new class of free minutes, adding unlimited text...
And there is no way to avoid this, as the CS systems require the new contract agreement before the changes can be applied.
It's called creating an artificial reef. It's done all the time.
And I highly doubt the Brits would even whisper any complaints as they too are not exactly happy with the contents of the Bradley Manning leaked files.
Well if they have NO diplomatic representation to deliver a declaration of war too. Or we could just send some SEALs in to plant explosives on the legs, wait a few days and blow it so it topples into the water during a nasty storm. Who is going to complain? Heck who is going to even investigate the failure of one or more supports during a storm>
Acts of war are not necessarily wrong or illegal. The world usually expects diplomatic notification of war, but it's not required, and I repeat, who is going to file any complaint? No country recognizes Sealand, so no country is likely to file a formal complaint in the UN, media, or directly with the government of the attacking country.
In fact since the as yet unpublished diplomatic cables could be potentially embarrassing to every country on the planet, they'll all probably just quietly applaud the action and breath a sigh of relief.
Agreed. In fact why don't we talk about a comparison of processor speeds between 1991 and today?
From some random tech site giving a history of processors:
June 1991
Intel 486 introduced
Clock speed: 50 MHz
Number of transistors: 1,200,000
vs
Take your pick of quad or eigjt-core processors running at around 3.3 GHz.
Well your experience is different from what I've seen in their TV's and Tablets. And who puts any electronics directly onto the house power without a surge protector?
They may not be high end systems but they work. And they don't break the bank. Also most consumers are not opening the cases (as that usually voids the warranty) and thus don't really care what it looks like inside as long as it works.
Travel to Cuba is not what is actually illegal (that was struck down) what is illegal is spending any money in or to get there. An law to directly Ban any travel to Cuba was passed but struck down as unconstitutional. Should your travel take you to Cuba, penalties may ensue for traveling there in violation of the financial sanctions in place. But traveling there itself is not the illegal act, trading (conducting commerce) with the enemy is the crime.
And besides that is totally besides the point. The right to travel is within the country, as well as the right to leave the country and to be able to return.
The TSA isn't threatening your ability to travel to Cuba, head to Canada and you can fly to Cuba. You can't fly there from the US because that would require the Airlines to conduct business with entities (airports) in Cuba which is a crime. What the TSA is threatening is your right to travel freely via any means you choose throughout this country without being forced to choose between surrendering your 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th amendment rights or surrendering your right to travel (and the means of travel is irrelevant be it car, train, plane, bus, or boat.) And the question asked was what to do about TSA searches blocking someone who doesn't choose to surrender their rights from traveling via the city transit system and thus denying him his right to travel.
Agreed and that is a violation of our rights. The Supreme Court has held repeatedly that freedom of movement is a right, Not a privilege.
"The right to travel is a part of the 'liberty' of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. If that "liberty" is to be regulated, it must be pursuant to the law-making functions of the Congress. . . . . Freedom of movement across frontiers in either direction, and inside frontiers as well, was a part of our heritage. Travel abroad, like travel within the country, . . . may be as close to the heart of the individual as the choice of what he eats, or wears, or reads. Freedom of movement is basic in our scheme of values." Kent v. Dulles, 357 US 116, 125.
"Undoubtedly the right of locomotion, the right to move from one place to another according to inclination, is an attribute of personal liberty, and the right, ordinarily, of free transit from or through the territory of any State is a right secured by the 14th amendment and by other provisions of the Constitution." Schactman v. Dulles, 96 App DC 287, 293.
These two cases were in the 1950's, but Supreme Court case law on this goes back to at least 1823.
Not to dis your great country, but Hollywood isn't targeting the UK or European markets in their whining, it's all about the US, where Tintin hasn't been popular since the 60's at the latest. And it is in the US where it hasn't been doing as well in the theaters as Hollywood would like. It's doing much better in the UK and around the world where people do recall it, just not in the US.
As for Tintin, I don't know; it probably has to do with the fact that Americans think that animated, cartoony movies are just for kids, combined with the fact that the modern generation of Parents and their children have probably never heard of Tintin. If the kids aren't begging to go see it, why would their parents take them to see a cartoon they've(the parents) have only vaguely ever heard of?
FTFY
This isn't like Transformers or GI Joe where you have the marketing push of parents wanting to relive their childhood memories, and assuming their kids will enjoy it with them. Tin Tin is grandparent country, and grandparents are rarely the ones dragging kids to the theater.
New? In the 50's it was new, but didn't stick around. In the 60's it came again but still didn't work. Ditto for the 70's 80's and 90's. Guess what, it's teh 21st century and it still hasn't changed. 50% of the population can't enjoy 3D (they either get sick or simply can't see it).
Granted for those that could enjoy it Avatar was amazing in 3D, but take away the 3d and it was Pocahontas minus the great theme song. But most 3d films just treat it like a gimmick, occasionally throwing stuff at the audience just to prove it's in 3D. In the last Harry Potter they had him throw the pensive bowl at the audience when in all prior examples of it's use it had remained in it's alcove. Why move it in this movie, simply so they could show off the 3D effects.
It is? All of it? That's the only purpose for it? And the only way any of it is ever used? We should debate this point, good thing we have the interwebs. Where did the initial funding for that come from? DARPA.
Maybe we could get together to debate it, we can use our GPS enabled smart phones to find each other. Where did we get GPS? DARPA again.
As to healing and curing, you realize nothing presses medical technology forward faster than war.
It might be fun to take the job and program in some bogus speeches for him to give. Something about him finding religion, discovering creationism to be true and so on and have it end with a comment about maybe he should pay his chair engineer a decent salary so his stuff would actually work right.
You have to admit it would be funny at least once.
We'll never know because from the beginning there was NO attempt by Christoforo to explain anything. First the kid emails saying "Hey the promised delivery date was two weeks ago, what's up?" and he gets "17th" as the entire response with no explanation at all. That was when the PR dude's failure began. Customers can still be grumpy, but had PR dude said "I'm sorry, manufacturing and shipping delays outside our control have greatly impacted our efforts to provide you with your purchase. We are now expecting to be able to begin shipping tomorrow the 17th." This scenario would have played out entirely differently. But no First PR dude tries answering a very legitimate question/complaint with a number, then his next response is gibberish "whither", and then he just lashes out at the by now very rightfully angry customer.
PR dude failed at his very job title PUBLIC RELATIONS. No amount of blame goes on the customer at all, the company had collected his payment immediately and had by that point been holding (or even spending) his payment for two months with nothing in return, not even any shipping updates. Compare this to my online shopping experience this Christmas, one item I ordered was back ordered, the company let me know it was delayed. Then they let me know when it was expected. Then they let me know when it shipped, and they didn't charge my card until after it was delivered. That is how you handle business like this, you don't charge for the item and then sit with zero updates for two months, going past the promised delivery date with still no information. Mr Christoforo failed totally and deserves the response he's getting.
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Sure, if you only store your books on your reader, and you never upgrade, oh but not even then are you correct. I have a Rocket ebook from 2001, if I plug it in the books are still there and accessible. As to my current library, it's on my reader (Nook), my computer, an external HD and all purchased ones are available on the sites I purchased them from. The last source is the one most likely to disappear, but it's not a big concern. All the books I have on the old rocket reader were from Baen so when I bought the Nook I just re-downloaded them in the new format. Oh and the books in the reader are actually on a micro SD card in the reader and are thus easily transferable.
As to traveling, well that's what finally sold me on getting my nook. I went on a two week business trip to Cambodia. I packed eight books along (that being all I had room for). I had six of them read by the time I got over there, finished off the last couple withing a day or two of arrival and had nothing to read until I hit a stateside airport again. Counter that with the ability to have thousands of books on my reader at a time, and only needing interweb access to get more books. A book does not last me long. Power and internet were available to me in Cambodia, an English language book store or library was not.
The next two week trip I took, I took only my nook for reading material. I read 12.5 books and never once plugged it in. Power was again readily available but I wanted to see if it really would last me. And it did. Additionally the nook took less space than one book, let alone 8 to 13.
Now lets look at hard copy. If my Nook gets wet or dropped, I get another reader and transfer the SD card, or just re-download them. Conversely, with many of the paperbacks I own I have to be careful reading them because the crappy glue they use fails and the books try to fall apart on me. Then there is the storage, and issues when moving. My library was the most space and weight consuming portion of my possessions. I like books, I read and re-read them. I like to keep books. That results in several bookshelves filled two and three layers deep (paperback novels). I have more e-books than hardcopy now, but my entire e-library fits on the SD card inside my Nook.
The problem with sound tracks is keeping them synced with your reading. I hate it when I'm reading about a big space battle and the explosions keep happening in my mind minutes before the sound track gets to them. Or I forget to turn off the sound track when I have to put the book down and later I find myself picking up the book and being hours behind the sound effects.
Thank you for explaining that far better than I could of.
No, you missed the point. The page that was linked continues to say that No Interpol messages related to religious matters will be processed and sent out. Saudi Arabia should have been politely but firmly told that such a warrant could not be published to the world via Interpol.
Interpol had better start screaming bloody murder about either their system or their name being misused by SA and Malaysia in this arrest. The fact that the warrant went out over the Interpol system is a violation of the Interpol constitution, if it did. Otherwise the fact that it's been reported as the arrest occurring by Interpol is a violation of the constitution.
It doesn't say that they don't intervene, it states that they will not be involved in any arrests or deportations or even publishing of warrants based on religious issues, as such warrants are, as in this case, pure persecution on the basis of thought crimes.
When you can show that the Government of Saudi Arabia had a hand in selecting, training for, funding and directing 9/11, you point will have credence. Until then, give it up all ready.
From the above linked site:
Interpretation The interpretation of Article 3 in the context of INTERPOL’s activities has been the subject of a number of INTERPOL’s General Assembly Resolutions.
Deriving from those Resolutions and their implementation in INTERPOL’s practice throughout the years, the primary objectives of Article 3 may be defined as follows:
To ensure the independence and neutrality of INTERPOL as an international organisation;
To reflect international extradition law;
To protect individuals from persecution.
Article 3 applies to all of INTERPOL’s activities and is particularly pertinent to the processing of information via the Organization’s channels, especially in the review and issuance of INTERPOL Notices and the review of messages exchanged directly among its member countries.
Italics and Bold emphasis added by me.
Though 10 years ago the cell coverage for basic phone service was much better. Back in the days of analog you had to hunt a lot harder to find areas without coverage. There were still plenty of them but not nearly as many.
Also I question the validity of the map. I know some of the areas of Utah where they claim solid coverage exists, it certainly doesn't have it. Once you get out of town or off the main transit routes (I-15, I-80, I-70, I-84, and Hwys 89 and 40) coverage becomes much more intermittent to non-existent.
In the US signing up a new plan without a new contract is near impossible. There are a very few cases mostly with smaller local carriers or pay as you go plans that give you nothing but basic local calling, which lock you into small geographic areas, As most carriers (especially the 4 major carriers) require two year contract agreements for seemingly standard plan features even if you bring your own device.
In Europe where you are it's a whole different world, your options are wide and many. Not so here in the US. And here you also have to be careful where you set up your account. Go with a second party retailer and you can easily find yourself under a double ETF. The second party retailers have you sign a contract agreement that identifies them as the party to whom an ETF would be owed, but then they establish or update your account with the carrier and check the contract agreement option. Try to cancel then and both the carrier and the second party retailer will come after you for the EFT. The secondary party comes after you because they are the ones who actually purchased the device at full price to sell to you, the carrier because their system says you agreed to a contract, not that you have any device costs for them to defray. So the wise choice is to ensure you are at a the Carrier's own branded stores to ensure you don't get the double whammy.
I'm sorry but I have to inform you that I have the patent on receiving royalties at P.O. Boxes, so if you'll just remit your received royalties to me I'll allow you to continue receiving royalties to pass on to me.
And don't ever try to change your plan, as the carriers often try to tack on another two years for every new service they bring out. Even though the contracts are supposedly to defray the cost of the devices. You find them getting tacked on for things like increasing your data plan, adding the latest new class of free minutes, adding unlimited text...
And there is no way to avoid this, as the CS systems require the new contract agreement before the changes can be applied.
But then I went on Facebook to share the message, and suffered a relapse. Oh and I had to go harvest my farm as well.
It's called creating an artificial reef. It's done all the time.
And I highly doubt the Brits would even whisper any complaints as they too are not exactly happy with the contents of the Bradley Manning leaked files.
Well if they have NO diplomatic representation to deliver a declaration of war too. Or we could just send some SEALs in to plant explosives on the legs, wait a few days and blow it so it topples into the water during a nasty storm. Who is going to complain? Heck who is going to even investigate the failure of one or more supports during a storm>
Acts of war are not necessarily wrong or illegal. The world usually expects diplomatic notification of war, but it's not required, and I repeat, who is going to file any complaint? No country recognizes Sealand, so no country is likely to file a formal complaint in the UN, media, or directly with the government of the attacking country.
In fact since the as yet unpublished diplomatic cables could be potentially embarrassing to every country on the planet, they'll all probably just quietly applaud the action and breath a sigh of relief.
Well they could have changed the color scheme from the hideous green to black for the day.
From some random tech site giving a history of processors:
June 1991 Intel 486 introduced Clock speed: 50 MHz Number of transistors: 1,200,000
vs
Take your pick of quad or eigjt-core processors running at around 3.3 GHz.
What other useless comparisons can we use?
Well your experience is different from what I've seen in their TV's and Tablets. And who puts any electronics directly onto the house power without a surge protector?
They may not be high end systems but they work. And they don't break the bank. Also most consumers are not opening the cases (as that usually voids the warranty) and thus don't really care what it looks like inside as long as it works.
Travel to Cuba is not what is actually illegal (that was struck down) what is illegal is spending any money in or to get there. An law to directly Ban any travel to Cuba was passed but struck down as unconstitutional. Should your travel take you to Cuba, penalties may ensue for traveling there in violation of the financial sanctions in place. But traveling there itself is not the illegal act, trading (conducting commerce) with the enemy is the crime.
And besides that is totally besides the point. The right to travel is within the country, as well as the right to leave the country and to be able to return.
The TSA isn't threatening your ability to travel to Cuba, head to Canada and you can fly to Cuba. You can't fly there from the US because that would require the Airlines to conduct business with entities (airports) in Cuba which is a crime. What the TSA is threatening is your right to travel freely via any means you choose throughout this country without being forced to choose between surrendering your 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th amendment rights or surrendering your right to travel (and the means of travel is irrelevant be it car, train, plane, bus, or boat.) And the question asked was what to do about TSA searches blocking someone who doesn't choose to surrender their rights from traveling via the city transit system and thus denying him his right to travel.
"The right to travel is a part of the 'liberty' of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. If that "liberty" is to be regulated, it must be pursuant to the law-making functions of the Congress. . . . . Freedom of movement across frontiers in either direction, and inside frontiers as well, was a part of our heritage. Travel abroad, like travel within the country, . . . may be as close to the heart of the individual as the choice of what he eats, or wears, or reads. Freedom of movement is basic in our scheme of values." Kent v. Dulles, 357 US 116, 125.
"Undoubtedly the right of locomotion, the right to move from one place to another according to inclination, is an attribute of personal liberty, and the right, ordinarily, of free transit from or through the territory of any State is a right secured by the 14th amendment and by other provisions of the Constitution." Schactman v. Dulles, 96 App DC 287, 293.
These two cases were in the 1950's, but Supreme Court case law on this goes back to at least 1823.
Not to dis your great country, but Hollywood isn't targeting the UK or European markets in their whining, it's all about the US, where Tintin hasn't been popular since the 60's at the latest. And it is in the US where it hasn't been doing as well in the theaters as Hollywood would like. It's doing much better in the UK and around the world where people do recall it, just not in the US.
As for Tintin, I don't know; it probably has to do with the fact that Americans think that animated, cartoony movies are just for kids, combined with the fact that the modern generation of Parents and their children have probably never heard of Tintin. If the kids aren't begging to go see it, why would their parents take them to see a cartoon they've(the parents) have only vaguely ever heard of?
FTFY
This isn't like Transformers or GI Joe where you have the marketing push of parents wanting to relive their childhood memories, and assuming their kids will enjoy it with them. Tin Tin is grandparent country, and grandparents are rarely the ones dragging kids to the theater.
New? In the 50's it was new, but didn't stick around. In the 60's it came again but still didn't work. Ditto for the 70's 80's and 90's. Guess what, it's teh 21st century and it still hasn't changed. 50% of the population can't enjoy 3D (they either get sick or simply can't see it).
Granted for those that could enjoy it Avatar was amazing in 3D, but take away the 3d and it was Pocahontas minus the great theme song. But most 3d films just treat it like a gimmick, occasionally throwing stuff at the audience just to prove it's in 3D. In the last Harry Potter they had him throw the pensive bowl at the audience when in all prior examples of it's use it had remained in it's alcove. Why move it in this movie, simply so they could show off the 3D effects.
It is? All of it? That's the only purpose for it? And the only way any of it is ever used? We should debate this point, good thing we have the interwebs. Where did the initial funding for that come from? DARPA.
Maybe we could get together to debate it, we can use our GPS enabled smart phones to find each other. Where did we get GPS? DARPA again.
As to healing and curing, you realize nothing presses medical technology forward faster than war.
It might be fun to take the job and program in some bogus speeches for him to give. Something about him finding religion, discovering creationism to be true and so on and have it end with a comment about maybe he should pay his chair engineer a decent salary so his stuff would actually work right.
You have to admit it would be funny at least once.
We'll never know because from the beginning there was NO attempt by Christoforo to explain anything. First the kid emails saying "Hey the promised delivery date was two weeks ago, what's up?" and he gets "17th" as the entire response with no explanation at all. That was when the PR dude's failure began. Customers can still be grumpy, but had PR dude said "I'm sorry, manufacturing and shipping delays outside our control have greatly impacted our efforts to provide you with your purchase. We are now expecting to be able to begin shipping tomorrow the 17th." This scenario would have played out entirely differently. But no First PR dude tries answering a very legitimate question/complaint with a number, then his next response is gibberish "whither", and then he just lashes out at the by now very rightfully angry customer.
PR dude failed at his very job title PUBLIC RELATIONS. No amount of blame goes on the customer at all, the company had collected his payment immediately and had by that point been holding (or even spending) his payment for two months with nothing in return, not even any shipping updates. Compare this to my online shopping experience this Christmas, one item I ordered was back ordered, the company let me know it was delayed. Then they let me know when it was expected. Then they let me know when it shipped, and they didn't charge my card until after it was delivered. That is how you handle business like this, you don't charge for the item and then sit with zero updates for two months, going past the promised delivery date with still no information. Mr Christoforo failed totally and deserves the response he's getting.
But don't forget that the article also stated thatthe number drops has been growing over the past few days.